Eight Pet Care Startups Join Leap Venture Studio's Fourth Cohort Leap Venture Studio announces the eight pet care startups that are joining its fourth cohort in February 2021. The startups – coming from five different countries – were chosen for their unique products...
A day of pet wellness with Homeboy Industries, the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, and County Supervisor Hilda Solis. In May 2020, Michelson Found Animals partnered with Homeboy Industries, Anti-Recidivism Coalition, and County Supervisor Hilda Solis to...
COVID-19’s economic ramifications have brought the pre-existing student basic needs crisis to a tipping point. Pre-COVID, 50% of college students suffered from food or housing insecurity, and, each year, 3 million students drop out due to financial issues...
Backed by some of the most influential organizations in animal philanthropy, HASS has collaborated with 200-plus organizations across multiple states and countries. Reshaping the Relationship Between Animal Shelters and Their Communities When the COVID-19...
Michelson Found Animals celebrates their 15 years of work in the animal welfare space and they are just getting started for more. Michelson Found Animals is celebrating 15-years of saving pets and enriching lives. Since 2005, Michelson Found Animals...
A team of scientists have for the first time looked at a pancreatic cell as it was packaging insulin and responding to a drug treatment. A team of scientists—led by researchers at the Bridge Institute at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent...
Michelson Found Animals has received a Service Enterprise certification from Points of Light, the world’s largest organization dedicated to volunteer service. Michelson Found Animals (MFA) is dedicated to being a driving force behind improvements for animal...
Epic Sciences and Peter Kuhn's CTC Technology Collaboration Epic Sciences, Inc. has entered into an exclusive license and collaboration agreement with Peter Kuhn, Ph.D., and the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience. Dr. Kuhn is a founding member of...
Brett Yates steps into the role following the departure of longtime executive director Aimee Gilbreath who recently became president of PetSmart Charities. Brett Yates has been named CEO of the Michelson Found Animals (MFA). He has been MFA’s chief...
Higher Ed students can benefit from open educational resources. More than $3 billion worth of financial aid in the U.S. is spent on course materials. That doesn’t need to be the case. By leveraging open educational resources and free textbook degree...
"It is no longer sufficient to be non-racist; now it is time for everyone to be anti-racist.” - Dr. Gary Michelson “I now realize that expecting people to compete when deprived of an even playing field from the beginning is discriminatory. It is no longer...
The University of California, Irvine’s new Leveraging Inspiring Futures Through Educational Degrees (LIFTED) program extends the opportunity to earn a UC bachelor’s degree to a new demographic of students: currently incarcerated individuals. Funded in...